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NikolaiFyodorov · 3942 days ago · link · · parent · post: A 1995 opinion piece that questions the importance of the internet
Oh, absolutely. In that particular complaint I believe he was spot on. And it's a powerful complaint. Is the cacophany of disparate (and overwhelmingly ill-informed and unconstructive) opinion that comes with mass democratisation of online comment balanced by the emergence of real online communities? There appears to be general assent that it is, but the trouble is, for every person posting about health care or mass surveillance on Hubski or Reddit (yeah, I know) there's 20 or more others spewing an indigestible rant in the comments field of a major news site.